These apparent inconsistencies may reflect differences in populations studied, sample size, glycaemic measures, adjustment for confounders or intra‐individual variation in blood glucose levels and reverse causality.
Of obesity measures, adjustment for truncal fat provided the most consistent and independent attenuation of the ethnic differentials in both sexes Adjustment for these risk factors in women largely abolished the ethnic minority difference in diabetes incidence.
Our data suggest that for the aspect of AGD we measured, adjustment for body weight is reasonable.
In a smaller subset of PDHS patients who had insulin resistance measured, adjustment for HOMA-IR yielded similar results (slope of eGFR decline -.17, P = 0.379).
In future studies on the relationship between quality of life data and survival duration, in addition to biomedical measures, adjustments should be made for patients' socioeconomic status.
In this paper, we use both incidence and mortality data, as well as more precise (albeit ecologic) exposure measures and adjustments for confounding variables than has been typical.
For the outcome variables, of which baselie measurements were significantly different between groups, R 2.14.0, Package [fANCOVA] was used to test whether the ziprasidone and olanzapine groups differed in absolute changes of outcome measures after adjustment for the baseline measures.
Friedman's test was used to analyze within-group repeated measures, with adjustment for previous measurements.
Table 4 shows the independent associations of the glucose measures with adjustment for A1C and the associations of A1C adjusted for each of the glucose measures.
Although the association of dioxin-like exposure measures with onset by G2+ remained largely nonsignificant, these associations were also stronger for most exposure measures after adjustment for ΣPCB levels (see Supplemental Material, Table 2).
